Top 100 Questions That Quotes
#1. I think the president should be accessible, should answer questions that aren't pre-screened, but I think there should be a little bit of dignity to the presidency.
Ed Rendell
#2. The reactions haven't differed; the concerns have been different. When I read for a predominantly Indian audience, there are more questions that are based on issues of identity and representation.
Jhumpa Lahiri
#3. Answers come when the questions that are being asked need to be answered.
Jamie Clayton
#4. [He] had the soul of a poet, and because of this, he liked very much to consider questions that had no answers.
Kate DiCamillo
#5. Whatever the questions that trouble you just get up and ask, don't let them suffocate you. Because questions not asked will stay questions unanswered.
Mansi Soni
#6. The questions that creep around at four thirty in the morning are not the kind that can be easily dismissed. You can beat them with a shovel, and they'll just keep getting back up.
Maureen Johnson
#7. It's the unanswered questions that makes it worth getting up in the morning.
Stephen King
#8. We are resolved that the method of consultation shall be the method adopted to deal with any other questions that may concern our two countries, and we are determined to continue our efforts to remove possible sources of difference, and thus to contribute to assure the peace of Europe.
Neville Chamberlain
#9. In the old economy, it was all about having the answers. But in today's dynamic, lean economy, it's more about asking the right questions. A More Beautiful Question is about figuring out how to ask, and answer, the questions that can lead to new opportunities and growth.
Eric Ries
#10. Good leaders ask great questions that inspire others to dream more, think more, learn more, do more, and become more.
John C. Maxwell
#11. There are questions that you don't ask because you're afraid of the answers to them.
Agatha Christie
#12. Think about the answers of the questions that have not yet been asked! When they are asked, you will have the answers ready!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#13. All history teaches us that these questions that we think the pressing ones will be transmuted before they are answered, that they will be replaced by others, and that the very process of discovery will shatter the concepts that we today use to describe our puzzlement.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
#14. [God] can ask a thousand questions that no one could ever answer.
Job
#15. There are questions that run through your head when you find out that you're a serial killer.
Charlie Human
#16. Philosophy for me is essentially atheistic. Now that's an anxious atheism. It's an atheism that is anxious because it inhabits questions that were resolved religiously in the pre-modern period.
Simon Critchley
#17. In my opinion, questions that are based on something real ought to be settled by something real without all this damned lazy miserable drifting
Joanna Russ
#18. One thing we have endeavoured to observe most scrupulously, namely, never to depart from the strictest facts and, in dealing with the difficult questions that have arisen during the year, we hope that we have used the utmost moderation possible under the circumstances.
Mahatma Gandhi
#19. And I wanted to know whether it is possible to live a hopeful life in a world riddled with ambiguity, whether we can find a way to go on even when we don't get answers to questions that haunt us
John Green
#20. I like thinking about what could be out there, and I love the questions that sci-fi poses.
Henry Ian Cusick
#21. I like films that deal with some of those questions that you can never answer: 'Why are we here? What's it about? What happens to us with the choices that we make? What are the ramifications for doing something right, or doing something wrong?' Those universal questions, I enjoy.
Dominic Monaghan
#22. Sex, like death, was important, and yet why did no one seem to care enough to ask the questions that mattered?
Sharon Guskin
#23. There are 3 questions that would destroy most of the arguments of the Left. The first is - compared to what? The second is - at what cost? And the third is - what hard evidence do you have?
Thomas Sowell
#24. The moot court process in our office when we get ready, we - everybody, including the SG, does two moot courts for each argument. And they are phenomenal, and they predict 90 percent of the questions that I get asked, at least 90 percent.
Donald Verrilli Jr.
#25. When I first read the script to 'Black Hawk Down,' I didn't think it was the greatest thing in the world - far from it. But I thought the script at least raised some very important questions that are missing from the final product.
Brendan Sexton III
#26. Because of the failure of religion to offer satisfying answers to an increasing number of people, it's time for philosophy to address forcefully these questions that everybody is wondering about.
Rebecca Goldstein
#27. I really enjoy when I'm asked questions that leap from the physical world and the material world into our hearts.
Jok Church
#28. Trust means we always have questions that we don't have the answers to.
Joyce Meyer
#29. I started asking the big questions that I had asked in college, that my compatriots the Greek philosophers had asked, like 'what is a good life?' Socrates famously said that 'The unexamined life is not worth living.' I started asking these questions from the starting point of 'what is success?'
Arianna Huffington
#30. Fox News covers stories that some other news outlets won't cover. We ask some questions that other news outlets wouldn't ask. And sometimes that's perceived as bias by people who've grown up in a world where there are only liberal outlets.
Megyn Kelly
#31. And people got divorced, didn't they? If they fell in love with someone else? And that other person was available? These weren't the kinds of questions that could be answered by Google ...
Lottie Moggach
#32. What are you? What am I? Those are the questions that constantly persecute and torment me and perhaps also play some part in my art.
Max Beckmann
#33. The young, free to act on their initiative, can lead their elders in the direction of the unknown ... The children, the young, must ask the questions that we would never think to ask, but enough trust must be re-established so that the elders will be permitted to work with them on the answers.
Margaret Mead
#34. The serious questions that are talked out or strangled with red tape are more numerous than those that are killed by silence; the number of people whose ideas are knocked on the head in societies is greater in our day than that of the solitary fighters who go under.
Ellen Key
#35. You don't make a film because the audience is ready for it. You make a film because you have questions that are in your gut.
Paul Haggis
#36. Getting offended is a great way to avoid answering questions that make you sound dumb.
Tucker Max
#37. You need to change the questions you ask yourself and of your situations, in order to change the trajectory of your life. These are questions that will help you define and refine your purpose.
Archibald Marwizi
#38. There are still many challenges and questions that need to be addressed before optogenetics can be applied in humans for therapeutic uses.
Feng Zhang
#39. This isn't the road home. This is a road littered with questions that will inevitably lead to an answer.
Meryl S. Kavanagh
#40. No space, no time, no gravity, no electromagnetism, no particles. Nothing. We are back where Plato, Aristotle and Parmenides struggled with the great questions: How Come the Universe, How Come Us, How Come Anything? But happily also we have around the answer to these questions. That's us.
John Archibald Wheeler
#41. And as I sat there, I realized that the questions intersecting life, death, and meaning, questions that all people face at some point, usually arise in a medical context.
Paul Kalanithi
#42. There was no answer, except the general answer life gives to all the most complex and insoluble questions. That answer is: one must live for the needs of the day, in other words, become oblivious.
Leo Tolstoy
#43. Thus far we have considered the problem of conservation of land purely as an economic issue. A false front of exclusively economic determinism is so habitual to Americans in discussing public questions that one must speak in the language of compound interest to get a hearing.
Aldo Leopold
#44. You and I have that same power at our disposal every moment of the day. At the moment, the questions that we ask ourselves can shape our perception of who we are, what we're capable of, and what we're willing to do to achieve our dreams.
Tony Robbins
#45. The principle of always seeking an alternative applies to nonviolence as well. It is this: If nonviolence is to be credible, it must answer the questions that violence purports to answer, but in a better way.
Jim Wallis
#46. When somebody asks, 'Whats the answer to all of these questions?' that's absurd. There is no answer, there are answers, along the way.
Jacque Fresco
#47. The fine art of executive decision consists in not deciding questions that are not now pertinent, in not deciding prematurely, in not making decisions that cannot be made effective, and in not making decisions that others should make.
Chester Barnard
#48. [T]hat finally is the questions, that is the anguish
to abide in God's hiddenness is one thing, to abide in God's absence is altogether something else.
Lauren F. Winner
#49. What's most interesting about trying to figure out AI is the questions that it forces you to ask about the nature of consciousness.
Oscar Isaac
#50. Keep growing quietly and seriously throughout your whole development; you cannot disturb it more rudely than by looking outward and expecting from outside replies to questions that only your inmost feeling in your most hushed hour can perhaps answer.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#51. The required cheerfulness that characterizes many of our churches produces a suffocating environment of pat, religious answers to the painful, complex questions that riddle the lives of hurting people.
Tullian Tchividjian
#52. There can be only two questions that are asked with regard to human relationships: Where am I going? Who is going with me? Do not invert the order of the questions. Do not - under any circumstances - invert the order of the questions. Is that clear?
Neale Donald Walsch
#53. I noticed that no matter where I went in the country, there was this group of questions that got asked. I would track them and keep them in categories. Like body image, school, family, friendship, you name it, the emotional life of a teenage girl.
Elizabeth Berkley
#54. Limbo is the state where there are only questions. That was as far as I'd gotten.
David Levithan
#55. I may not answer the questions that either the moderator or you want to hear, but I'm going to talk straight to the American people and let them know my track record also.
Sarah Palin
#56. I met an old lady once, almost a hundred years old, and she told me, 'There are only two questions that human beings have ever fought over, all through history. How much do you love me? And Who's in charge?
Elizabeth Gilbert
#57. There are small truths and big truths, just as there are smal lies and big lies, and along those truths and lies run the questions that were never asked and those that were never answered.
R.J. Ellory
#58. The problem we were struggling with within the closed market was what the incentive would be. You probably wouldn't use dollars. But those are all questions that need to be explored.
John Poindexter
#59. Films used to be about challenging, emotional journeys or moral questions that might make you walk away and re-evaluate how you felt about ... whatever. Now we're walking out of the cinema really not thinking about anything, other than the fact that the Hulk had a fight with a robot.
Simon Pegg
#60. So long as we use a certain language, all questions that we can ask will have to be formulated in it and will thereby confirm the theory of the universe which is implied in the vocabulary and structure of the language.
Michael Polanyi
#61. So the tough questions that have been asked of Sarah Palin thus far just have been about the fact that she doesn't know anything and isn't ready to be vice president. That's fair game and it has nothing to do with her gender.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
#62. I don't write books because I have answers. I write books because I have questions. What we are is the questions that we ask, not the answers that we provide. It's all about the process of self-examination. I think that's what the best writing always contains.
John Edgar Wideman
#63. I like writing about what to me are like questions that I have about myself and the human condition. I find quantum physics fascinating, so I like to write about that, and I like things that make me laugh.
Kirsten Vangsness
#64. I try to take large, general questions that are difficult to resolve and break them down into small, very specific questions that have clear answers.
Bill James
#65. We tried to act familiar, which meant we couldn't ask the kind of questions that might have helped us figure each other out and year after year the distance grew.
Heidi Jon Schmidt
#66. What politician ever thinks beyond 4 or 5 years? But such thinking is hopelessly inadequate for the big questions that involve the fabric of the world we live in
Simon Barnes
#67. So much of my writing derives from these questions that I ask myself - things that are utterly beyond my personal set of experiences - and it's my attempt to try to ... understand, to sort of break out of my own consciousness, you know, the limitations of my own life.
Jhumpa Lahiri
#69. Subcreation is not just a desire, but a need and a right; it renews our vision and gives us new perspective and insight into ontological questions that might otherwise escape our notice within the default assumptions we make about reality.
Mark J.P. Wolf
#70. Many leading educators and psychologists believe that it is the ability to ask good questions that characterizes both intelligence and creativity.
Madeline Levine
#71. Every single person, pretty much, is taught what they're supposed to do: go to school, get a job, find someone to love, get married, have kids, raise the kids, and then die. Nobody questions that. What if you want to do something different?
Aziz Ansari
#72. Cawley probably wasn't used to questions that continued after he'd shown displeasure with them, so they gave him a minute to catch his breath.
Dennis Lehane
#73. I discovered that I was part of a Parkinson's community with similar experiences and similar questions that I'd been dealing with alone.
Michael J. Fox
#74. I don't believe he had a responsibility to even answer that question - you have no responsibility to answer personal questions that people have no right to ask you.
Chris Matthews
#75. I have always felt that the only great thing about an interview is the questions that are asked.
Diana Vreeland
#76. Face the hard questions that life requires you to ask. Gather with other travelers on the narrow road, pilgrims who acknowledge their confusion and feel their fears. Then, together, live those questions in My Presence.
Larry Crabb
#77. Questions that pertain to the foundations of mathematics, although treated by many in recent times, still lack a satisfactory solution. Ambiguity of language is philosophy's main source of problems. That is why it is of the utmost importance to examine attentively the very words we use.
Giuseppe Peano
#78. I believe there are no questions that science can't answer about a physical universe.
Stephen Hawking
#79. I've always wanted to answer all the questions that nature posed for us.
Klaus Von Klitzing
#80. Who am I? Where have I come from? Where am I going?-are not questions with an answer but questions that open us up to new questions which lead us deeper into the unshakeable mystery of existence.
Henri Nouwen
#81. Learning to sit with ambiguity can be a very important start at a life liberated from anxiety - and the way to do it is to resist the urge to chase answers to questions that may actually be unanswerable.
Kelly G. Wilson
#82. I realized through my personal travels how little I know about certain conflicts, because I was too vain or self-absorbed to ask the questions. That's been the focus while I'm in my thirties - to become an accomplished woman, rather than some actress.
Diane Kruger
#83. One could argue that there exist certain questions that are best left unanswered.
Dan Brown
#84. the count, who always solved questions that seemed to him perplexing by deciding that everything was splendid.
Leo Tolstoy
#85. If that had been my last show last night, you'd be talking to the new guy, asking the same questions that I got.
David Mandel
#86. The best creative solutions don't come from finding good answers to the questions that are presented ... They come from inventing new questions!
Seth Godin
#87. Neal didn't like to be asked things. It made his jaw tense. He'd give you a flippant answer. Like, whatever you were asking, it wasn't any of your business.
Like nothing was anyone's business.
Like nobody should ask questions that didn't absolutely need to be answered.
Rainbow Rowell
#88. In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.
Dag Hammarskjold
#89. I will no longer wound myself with the thoughts and questions that have surrounded me like thorns: that is a penance You do not ask of me.
Thomas Merton
#90. I was dealing with a lot of spiritual questions like "Who am I?" "What is God" "What is the meaning of life?" All of these questions that I think we can either face head on or choose to ignore, it's up to us.
John McLaughlin
#91. I think about the poet Rainer Maria Rilke who said that it's the questions that move us, not the answers. As a writer, I believe that it's our task, our responsibility, to hold the mirror up to social injustices that we see and to create a prayer of beauty. The questions serve us in that capacity.
Terry Tempest Williams
#92. One of the many questions that have often bothered me is why women have been, and still are, thought to be so inferior to men. It's easy to say it's unfair, but that's not enough for me; I'd really like to know the reason for this great injustice!
Anne Frank
#93. As human beings, don't we need questions without answers as well as questions with answers, questions that we might someday answer and questions that we can never answer?
Alan Lightman
#94. After an extensive investigation, the office produced a report that addressed the many questions that confronted the difficult issues, it laid out new evidence, and it reached a definitive conclusion.
Ken Starr
#95. We have millions of questions that need answers because there are so many things that the reasoning mind cannot explain. It is not important if the answer is correct; just the answer itself makes us feel safe.
Miguel Angel Ruiz
#96. The universe at large is full of questions that we still don't know anything about, and there will be always young people, brilliant, who are going to make new discoveries.
Ahmed Zewail
#97. So how many women have you visited in their dreams? (Geary)
Is this one of those questions that if I don't answer it correctly, you get angry at me? (Arik)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#98. Buddhism has always been a religion for people who've worked their way through a cycle of materialism and still feel discontented and want more, or have questions that their state of prosperity is not answering.
Pankaj Mishra
#99. Questions that require answers are what keep readers going - and the place to start raising those questions is with your very first sentence.
Nancy Kress
#100. When I heard his first songs, Dylan was answering certain questions that I had all my life been asking myself.
Nana Mouskouri
